“Dogmatism is the prerogative of youth.”

—  Stanley Baldwin

Speech to the Empire Rally of Youth at the Royal Albert Hall (18 May 1937), quoted in Service of Our Lives (1937), p. 161.
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Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1867–1947

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